Worst Anti-View: The Depressing End of the Las Vegas Strip
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You either win big or lose big in Vegas and year after year, we find the same saying rings true for room views. Sometimes, you get a fabulous view of the Bellagio fountains and other times, you get to stare out at what is essentially Vegas dreams gone bust.
This was anti-view we got at the Encore Las Vegas. Granted we were high up on the 51st floor, but since we asked to be placed in a room away from the music blasting out of the Surrender nightclub, we were given a room with a view of the forlorn North end of the Strip. Here you can see what Vegas used to be and what Vegas hoped to be all in one shot.
Looming on the right is the abandoned Fontaine-Bust building which has not been worked on in over a year. At the front on the left is the also abandoned Echelon project from Boyd Gaming that would have included both a Mondrian and a Delano Hotel.
Just past that is Circus Circus and its 80s-tastic Adventuredome on the left. And we can't forget the Riviera (in front of the Fontaine-bust) which was recently bought by Barry Sternlicht but which will need a ton of work/money before it can ever be a real force on the Strip again.
Kinda makes looking at a rooftop or a parking garage seem a little more bearable, don't it?
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